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    Headington Hill Hall the forgotten years 1939 to 1958
    Headington Hill Hall the forgotten years 1939 to 1958
    Headington Hill Hall the forgotten years 1939 to 1958
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    Headington Hill Hall the forgotten years 1939 to 1958

    By Dawn Griffis

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    This book is a tribute to all the people who were part of the rehabilitation of the men who had suffered severe head injuries during WWII. The doctors, nurses, therapists and staff who were all part of the life at Headington Hill Hall during those years. The contribution these people made have had profound affect on future generation, not least of all a large part of my childhood. My father should be recognized for his significant role inventing the Oxford Lift to aid in the men's care in hospital and at home. What was started in the way of treatment, was essential for the eventual well being of future generations of people suffering from severe head injuries, it has set the standard for rehab in the following decades.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDawn Griffis
    Release dateJul 29, 2015
    ISBN9781516310715
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      Headington Hill Hall the forgotten years 1939 to 1958 - Dawn Griffis

      Headington Hill Hall:

      The forgotten years:1939 - 1958.

      Dawn Griffis

      Cover Photos

      Front:

      Top: Headington Hill Hall from the garden (UO)

      Left Middle: Front entrance (UO)

      Left Bottom: Balcony around first floor (UO)

      Right: Main stairs (UO)

      ––––––––

      Back:

      Top Left: Main path. © David Hawgood from Geograph.

      Top Right: Back path. © Creative Commons License 2202

      Bottom: Lower Lodge (SJ))

      Headington Hill Hall:

      The forgotten years 1939 to 1958.

      ISBN 978-1-300-03042-3

      Published by Lulu.com September 2012

      ––––––––

      Other Books by the author; Aynhoe Village Life - The way it was

      Then, Before and Beyond ISBN 978-1-84799-738-8

      Published by Lulu.com 2007

      Nursing at the Horton - The way it was When care to the people really mattered ISBN 978-1-84753-865-9

      Published by Lulu.com 2007

      Living and Nursing in America – The way it is and was.

      ISBN 978-1-257-75881-4

      Published by Lulu.com 2011

      This Book is dedicated to:

      My husband

      Mike Griffis

      My father

      Sydney M. M. Alsford

      And all

      ‘The Boys’

      Who were at

      Headington Hill Hall

      Table of Contents:

      ––––––––

      Acknowledgements8

      Introduction9

      Tribute11

      Chapter One  - The House & Grounds18

      Chapter Two - Hospital and Surroundings  27

      Chapter Three  - Who. What. Why & How  37

      Chapter Four - Them & Us55

      Chapter Five  - The Invention65

      Chapter Six - HHH The End73

      Acknowledgements

      I would like to thank:

      Ian Huckin, who has edited all of my books; he is a valued friend, and a patient teacher. I do not know where my books would be right now if it wasn’t for him - probably still a mess in my computer.

      Amanda Ingram, Archivist at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. For her advice, and guidance in finding the people I needed to contact, and the extensive research she did for me concerning the patients I remembered so well. This book would have very large gaps without her help. She has supplied me with photographs taken at St Hugh’s. Acknowledged as (SH).

      The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh's College, Oxford, for the use of the photographs in this book relating to the Military hospital that was there during WWII.

      Nathan Mcwattie Managing Director of Joerns Healthcare Ltd. Worcester, UK. With branches in US, Canada and the Netherlands. Joerns are the current owners and producers of the Oxford lift. For the donation of the photographs of the lift as it is now. Acknowledged as (NM)

      Stephanie Jenkins, who wrote the excellent History of Headington, Oxford and under the section, Building History, Headington Hill Hall and the Lodges were covered extensively. Her permission to use her photographs of the Hall, the three Lodges, and the grounds, as it is today, is invaluable.

      Acknowledged as (SJ)

      All copyrights are acknowledged in parentheses next to the Copyright owner’s names. Some photos have been taken from public sites on the Internet. I do not know the copyright owners of these photos. (UO)

      Finally, Sydney M.M. Alsford, my father who, at the time of his death in November 1989, left me all his photographs of Headington Hill Hall. The originals will be donated to the St Hugh’s College Archives on the completion of this book. I believe he would have liked that.

      Dawn Griffis September 2012

      Introduction

      At the start of WWII, it was anticipated there would be many casualties involving head injuries. During WWI the survival rate, of those who sustained these types of injury, was very low. They realised there would be a need for experts in this field. The one person with those credentials was Sir Hugh Cairns. To read more about him, what he accomplished in the past, and what he later did during WWII, please go to: http://www.ramcjournal.com/1988/3/schurr.pdf

      Cairns was already based in Oxford, which was also considered to be relatively safe from the threat of bombing, and also had good transport links to London. As it turns out, Oxford never had a single bomb dropped on it. Apparently, it was to be Hitler's Capital city when he ‘won the war’.

      St Hugh’s women’s college was a relatively modern

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